Managed to get away about 09.30 - delayed by having to wait for my final invoice.
Very light wind - decided to motor.
Not one other boat out on the river - July?
Started raining hard when I got to Burnham - no problem - good waterproofs - Aldi!!!
Arrived at the anchorage in the river Roach at 11.10 just at slack water - perfect.
The anchor bit first pull - great. anchored in 2 metres of water plus 4.3 rise = 6.3 x 3 = 20metres of chain required - pay out chain until the yellow painted section - SIMPLE - chq
Set the GPS anchor drag alarm at 0.2 miles.
Bacon and eggs for lunch - spot on.
Tried fishing with one of Bryn's plastic worms - too much weed.
Used my new Nav software to plan the trip to Ramsgate - brilliant!!
I put in the route - 18 waypoints - and put in 10-7-2012 @ 03.00 set off.
It calculated the course to steer for each leg, allowing for the tide and indicated 10 hours total time @4 knots.
I tried a graph feature and this indicated that if I set off at 05.00 then It will only be 8 hours.
Fantastic.
I will now confirm this by consulting the tidal atlas and plotting the route on the chart - backup.
The software also told me that the depth of water over the shallow bit will be 3 metres when I get there.
Again I will confirm that - the traditional way - building confidence.
then i discovered that the GSP into the pc was not working!!!
I tried all sorts of combinations to sort it - no chance.
It worked well last time out?
Then I remembered that I bought a low cost backup GPS that I have never tried - Maplins.
Plugged it in - BINGO.
and sewn ensign.
Maybe the original USB GPS doesn't like the new super fast pc?
Lots more to do today + steak for tea.
Mike.
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